We've just begun the second volume of Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World. My original plan was to complete one volume each year. We would begin in first grade and make our way through history from the ancients all the way to our current times in a four year cycle...

I love our boring ordinary life! We took two full weeks off for the holidays this year and I'm glad to say that our first week back to the "same old, same old" has gone well. Baby Girl took decent naps, we got a lot of our table work completed and we even had some...